STARTING LINE: Liberty IslandSTART LINE TASK: Run to the Statue of Liberty wall grounds and rappel yourselves up to the main base by using the provided tools. The first three teams to run up the grueling steps of the SoL to the lookout score tickets on the 1st direct flight to Casablanca. The next four teams score tickets on the 2nd flight connecting from Paris while the remaining four receive tickets on the 3rd flight connecting from London. (Note: Teams must take the regular ferry to Battery Park after retrieving their clue. Each departs & returns every 30 min. So retrieving their tickets ASAP is crucial.)

Leg 1 (United States --> Morocco) / New York to Casablanca (NIGHT RUN, self-drive or hire taxi driver to ruralized town [Aļt Ammar], Roadblock: prickly pear harvest & prepare "PP juice" to shot drink AT NIGHT, ride a mule cart transporting prickly pears from the Roadblock locat. to a small village also the Pit Stop)Leg 2 (Morocco --> Liberia) / self-drive back to Casablanca and flight to Monrovia (Detour: be an Aminata station serviceman and "CHANGE" tires on 10 cars OR "CLEAN" inside to out 20 cars getting water from hand pump both via persuasion wearing local servicemen outfits; Roadblock: build and fix West Point oasis shacks)Leg 3 (Liberia --> Nigeria) / to Lagos (Fast Forward: assemble 2 clay bikes and ride them down a treacherous hill to a traffic circle and grab their FF award at the center of the circle, Roadblock: Nigerian film trailers quiz at Idumota Market, Detour: Eyo festival ["Music" or "Masquerade"] near Teslim Balogun Stadium, Shrine of Fela Pit Stop)Leg 4 (Nigeria) / bus to Ondo's nearby forestry reserves (cocoa themed leg) (Double U-Turn)Leg 5 (Nigeria --> Italy) / to Milan and train to Genoa (Liguria Province leg, Savona Pit Stop)Leg 6 (Italy --> Albania) / to Tirana (city landmarks to countryside culture transition themed leg, Petrelė Castle Pit Stop)Leg 7 (Albania --> Greece) / Durrės ferry to Corfu (Lazarreto Island Roadblock, Palaia Frourio visit, Garitsa Bay Detour, Palaia Anaktora - Garden of the People Pit Stop)Leg 8 (Greece) / ferries to Patra (tasks in Patra locales, Fast Forward: Sacrificial offering at a Greek god temple's burning cauldron [sacrifice two personal belongings /sacrifice a clay "animal"], Pit Stop is located in Porto Rio)Leg 9 (Greece --> Nepal) / bus to Athens & flight to Kathmandu (everyday lives work in the city leg) (Double U-Turn)Leg 10 (Nepal --> Laos) / to Vientiane (economic & farm life themed leg)Leg 11 (Laos --> Japan) / to Tokyo (get their next clue from sushi shack drive-thru, Detour: "ANIME" TALENTED drawing for 5 locals or Shinjuku "PACHINKO" parlor's luck factor [earn total money of 20] Roadblock: Deliver 3 bento boxes of sushi by basket bike to each of the 5 different addresses around Tokyo wearing schoolgirl cosplay, Pit Stop at Ninomiya Jinja or some teams may call it "Ninomiya NINJA" )Leg 12 (Japan --> United States) / to Chicago, ILLINOISFINAL ROADBLOCK: (Not final task) A windy Final RB inside a giant wind machine hurling you at 50 mph while walking on waxed floor. The performers must strap on a bungee cord and pull themselves to the giant fan to grab a flag with a set of colors defining each countries' flags. [Example: Moroccan flag is red with a green star, therefore teams must grab the flag with mostly red/little green with separate color blots and place it in a numbered (chronologic country visit) slot.] They are NOT able to use any type of reference once they go into the wind machine. They have 25 minutes to complete the task or suffer a do-over after the waiting teams have all been served.FINISH LINE: self-drive to Horseshoe Hammond Casino in Gary, Indiana

It looks like a "fruitcake route", but oh well... nobody is that perfect in life.

Well, if you really think about the first leg... hurrying to climb walls and stairs and then descending back down (tiring as heck) , 30 min. separation per ferry transport (teams must hurry if they want to catch their first TAR flight ... arriving in Casablanca at night to drive to a questionable rural town is quite confusing and frustrating without detailed maps ... and then the Roadblock, it is very easy to suffer/attract cacti needle skin irritation without much light source (unless you're prepared and have flashlight hard hats) , and directing a mule... we all know how Ari & Staella and Nate & Jen felt when their mule wouldn't move, and at night... quite nightmare-ish.

And when you get eliminated by a stupid mule or confusion of directions...

In general the places chosen have either not been visited before (most) or else have hosted some terrible legs (Mauritius, Buenos Aires and the associated province, LA as a final destination). Plus, no Europe

EUROPE:Hungary: Attend an auction to bid for their next clue (additional task), lasers security system & holography spy task (Detour task), FIX ten Rubik's Cubes (Detour tasks)Greece: Sacrificial personal belonging offerings for Zeus (Fast Forward), Kerkyra catacombs visit (in request of Airlinesguy ), Toga "drag" race to Pit Stop in Athens to make it a little interesting Italy: Visiting the record-setting giant stuffed pink bunny hidden somewhere in the Torino valleys (I'm for real on this one ), Jester requests using flags as symbols from a Naples castle, wrong item given will result in fishy water being poured on the racer (Roadblock), Roman Gladiators themed leg in Rome (chariot racing and jousting AKA fencing task)

ASIA:Japan: Sushi drive-thru to order the "mystery sushi" (add. task), Deliver 3 bento boxes of sushi to each of the 5 addresses in the Tokyo area while riding a basket bike and wearing schoolgirl cosplay, featuring Ninomiya Jinja as Pit Stop location, Pachinko luck gambling as Detour task, visiting Sega Game CenterNepal: Help 30 locals fill their buckets with clean, drinking water (add. task), visiting many Kathmandu temples and villages (basically going there would be awesome! )China: Visiting Tibet Auronomous region for village yak tasks (yak herding add. task, yak butter or yak fur Detour, and "my yak is broken" Roadblock to find a Tibetan jewelry piece)South Korea: Eat a liter-worth of very spicy kimchi (add. task or Roadblock), endure monk hardship training (Roadblock or Detour)

MEMORY FINAL LEG TASKS (with overused start/finish cities):Flag ROADBLOCK in Chicago: Going into a 50 mph waxed wind machine with a bungee cord tied, team members must identify each visited countries' flags by their main color and color amounts. Grabbing a color palette flag placed centimeters away from the giant fan, they must return and place the palette by chronological order of how the race visited the countries. Once they have the country flag color palettes correct on all 8/9 correct countries, they will receive their next clue.Song ADD. TASK in Los Angeles: At the recording studio, revitalized from season 10 in Ukraine, teams must create a rap about all the countries they have visited. If the sound artist approves the song, he will give teams the next clue in a form of a recording contract.Ring toss ROADBLOCK in South Beach, Miami: At Lummus Park, team members had to toss rings onto an enlarged map inside a ring toss booth. The rings are numbered 1 - 12. Racers have to throw the rings onto the respectful pegs marking the main city or area the season has been from leg 1 to leg 12. If racers miss or it lands on the wrong peg, they have to START ALL OVER from the leg 1 ring. After getting all the rings on their proper stands, teams will receive their next clue.